What if life didn’t require oxygen? For centuries, we've operated under the assumption that oxygen is an essential part of ...

The best-known examples of predation involve carnivorous ... with predators consuming herbivores, plants and animals infected by parasites, and occasional disease outbreaks. Predation, herbivory ...

A slippery substance at the rim causes these animals to fall into the digestive ... However, mammals and oxpeckers may not be a perfect example of mutualism, as the birds can harm their hosts. The ...

Parasitism: Rafflesia, the world’s largest flower, takes water and nutrients from the host plant it grows on.

The eggs of many brood parasites, for example, mimic those of their hosts ... (Wellington: Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching, 2009): 83–88.

The two species of African rhinoceros are conservation icons. Large, charismatic, and vitally important for their ecosystems, ...

In his upcoming book, Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves, Emory University biologist Jaap de Roode takes the reader through a breezy and fun exploration into the ...

Emerging data from a recent study reveal that the frequent misidentification of spurious parasites in canine feces may signal ...